PeriscopeFilm

Subscribers 876K

Videos 10K

Views 305.3M

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PeriscopeFilm curates stock and archival footage focused on historical and military topics, including WWI, WWII, Cold War, and related Americana, with an emphasis on educational and preservation content. The channel operates as a stock footage resource, offering free public access on YouTube while licensing material to museums and broadcasters; uploads appear frequently, with an average of about 11K views per video across its 10,000+ published clips.

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We found 39 YouTube channels similar to PeriscopeFilm

#1

Kinolibrary

84% relevance

Subscribers 238K

Videos 21K

Views 112.7M

Appearances 22

SERP 100%

Similarity 73%

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They share audiences interested in archival and historical footage (queries like railroad archive footage and early computing footage) and have substantial overlap in search (100% for searches) with a strong content alignment (73%), making them similar to PeriscopeFilm in topic focus though Kinolibrary emphasizes archival clips.

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#2

Charlie Dean Archives

66% relevance

Subscribers 74.4K

Videos 1.8K

Views 20.6M

Appearances 7

SERP 41%

Similarity 82%

archival motion pictures transportation history footage telecommunications history clips

Similar to PeriscopeFilm in archival and historical film content (archival motion pictures, transportation history clips) with moderate search overlap (41%) and high content similarity (82%), indicating a shared library and audience despite stylistic differences.

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#3

HuntleyFilmArchives

64% relevance

Subscribers 104K

Videos 21K

Views 39.0M

Appearances 15

SERP 45%

Similarity 78%

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Aligns with PeriscopeFilm through railroad and hydroelectric power archival footage and educational film material (queries match and content is strong at 78%), signaling a comparable catalog of historical and educational film content.

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#4

High Sparks Films Extra

59% relevance

Subscribers 1.5K

Videos 937

Views 1.8M

Appearances 7

SERP 33%

Similarity 76%

midcentury advertising films

Shares a niche in midcentury advertising/clips with PeriscopeFilm via advertising-era content (queries like midcentury advertising films) and a modest search presence (33%) but solid content overlap (76%), indicating audience interest but stylistic differences.

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#5

A/V Geeks 16mm Films view on YouTube

56% relevance

Subscribers 219K

Videos 11K

Views 64.2M

Appearances 2

SERP 21%

Similarity 80%

transportation history footage

Directly overlaps in transportation history footage, with high content similarity (80%) and notable search presence (21%), aligning closely with PeriscopeFilm's historical clip library.

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#6

Movieclips view on YouTube

55% relevance

Subscribers 65.9M

Videos 44K

Views 68.8B

Appearances 8

SERP 37%

Similarity 67%

historical film clips

Broad historical film clips overlap with PeriscopeFilm (queries for historical film clips) and a large audience, showing similar content scope though broader in curation and platform scale.

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Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Kinolibrary (84% match, 238K subscribers) and HuntleyFilmArchives (64% match, 103K subscribers) as the top two by match strength. Kinolibrary overlaps strongly on railroad archive footage, hydroelectric power footage, and early computing footage, while HuntleyFilmArchives shares ties to railroad and hydroelectric footage plus educational film archives. A/V Geeks 16mm Films (56% match, 212K subscribers) also overlaps on transportation history queries, indicating a broader competition in archival and midcentury footage. PeriscopeFilm (876K subscribers) is smaller than Kinolibrary and A/V Geeks but larger than High Sparks Films Extra (1.4K) and HuntleyFilmArchives, with all channels competing over similar search queries such as stock film footage, historical clips, and archival motion pictures.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to PeriscopeFilm?

PeriscopeFilm's biggest competitors on YouTube are Kinolibrary — 84% match, 238K subscribers; Charlie Dean Archives — 66% match, 74.4K subscribers; HuntleyFilmArchives — 64% match, 103K subscribers. All three channels archive and share historical footage and stock film libraries similar to PeriscopeFilm.

What type of content does PeriscopeFilm make?

PeriscopeFilm creates historical and military stock-footage content, including topics like WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Cold War, and related U.S. military themes, plus vintage 16mm films and Americana. Upload frequency is roughly weekly, and recent videos average around 11K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to PeriscopeFilm?

We analyze PeriscopeFilm's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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